BUSINESS UPS PRO-CHINA PRESSURE.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Washington Post

WASHINGTON American business executives from Detroit to Beijing, shaken by recent sharp exchanges between the United States and China over human rights, are stepping up pressure on the Clinton administration and Congress to keep China open to U.S. products.

The business community's chief argument is that with China on the threshold of huge investments in industrial and communications infrastructure, a trade conflict now could not come at a worse moment.

At the same time, a search is on for new ways of pressuring China on human rights short of cutting off its favorable trading rights with the United States. Administration …